Yes, the dreaded head lice hit our house. Took a month of our summer away, but we survived. Here's what I didn't know that I needed to know.
-There are three types of lice... head lice is the one that I'd prefer between body lice, head lice and crab lice.
-It's best if you treat the entire family and house at the same time.
-On average, it takes 21 days, two treatments and almost daily nit combing to get rid of lice.
-The amount of head lice cases has increased to 12 million reported cases in the US this year.
-The amount of cases has increased with the use of hand held electronic devices (kids touching heads)
-I like the LiceFreee treatment as far as traditional over the counter treatments, but if we were going to do it all over again I would do the AirAlle treatment. The lady at the lice center in Utah was an excellent resource and said two things.... that you always have to treat twice and that this new treatment is the most effective non chemical treatment that's guaranteed to work faster than the regular 21 day cycle.
Because of the timing of the lice, we had to cancel our big family road trip that we'd been planning for more than a year. We were pretty sad about it, so we spent a lot of time doing other things. We hiked to Timpanogos cave, bought new legos and had lego days, bought a new swing set that the big kids can use, got movies from the library to watch, etc...
I'm going to be putting up pictures of stuff that we've been doing, but it will take some time. I've got a lot to catch up on.
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